Hello Redding and Beyond....Lets get you more into your body and out of your head. The life path of yoga is one in which you begin a deep relationship with yourself, your higher self, your God Self. It is a path that takes commitment and practice. You are a sacred temple. You deserve to know the love and joy of the universe that God created. You are that.

Today I had a conversation with a gentleman about learning to relax your muscles through meditation. He didn't understand..and I explained to him it's possible and that it didn't start that way for me..it started with Yoga and exploring my body with BEING in my body and enjoying the release and relaxation that comes from yoga. Then I began meditation of stillness and focused thought. Then I married the two together...and formed the third understanding that the body is made of energy and we can direct our thoughts to our body for healing. We have to think of the body like a 3-D imaging. We are 3-D. So Yoga is a meditation, if you so choose it to be.

Anything can be a meditation...as long as you intend to focus your awareness. Yoga is a meditation into the body..a deep reverence for the sacred temple that you are. The stretching is the pathway for a deeper awareness of release and letting go that happens when we bring our meditative state to the practice of "asana" or yoga poses. It is possible to sit with your own tenseness and to travel into it with a meditative awareness and intention to release it through thought, through visualization, through awareness.

The body will hear you...in fact the whole body is connected to every thought you think. Lets hope you are thinking how wonderful you are, how wonderful it feels to let go...to let go of any other thought other than the being-ness of your moment to moment enjoyment of stretching out of tightness and into surrender. It is all within you. Now.

_Hello Redding and beyond! I have officially moved offices, and am almost finished setting up my new studio/ healing sanctuary. This new office and building I am in feels wonderful and the people I share the building with are kind, caring and big hearted. I look forward to creating more of that feeling in my yoga classes, yoga and massage workshops and massage sessions with my clients and friends. Thank you so much for your business, support and genuine, real beings. Many blessings...to you...♥

Cheri Davis-Author

Cheri's insights and observations for holistic healing from her professional massage and yoga experience for how massage and yoga can help in your health.**No part of my writing is to be used or copied without my consent.**